in 9th grade work and writing In October 1929, a stock market crash in the U.S. set in motion a chain of events that would consume the entire world in a global economic depression. Each of those events led to the Great Depression during the 1930s. In 1–2 sentences, assess the major consequences of the Great Depression and their impact on regional conflict during the 1930s.
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The major consequences of the Great Depression included widespread unemployment, poverty, and a drastic decline in industrial production. These consequences contributed to the rise of extremist ideologies and aggressive territorial expansion by nations like Germany and Japan, which ultimately led to regional conflicts such as World War II.